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What’s the dress code at BDO? Jeans eveyday?
I hope my manager rotten in hell!!!!😡😡😡
Where are the Booz Allen people at?
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I don’t hate it, but I definitely don’t love it either. I mean, it pays the bills well enough and something has to do that sufficiently
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I would be very curious to hear from anybody who has experiences jumping to family office
It all comes down to the great flexibility in B4... I‘ve worked overtime hours from the kitchen table while my family is enjoying a meal, during vacations on the beach, in the car while taking a road trip, at night in bed next to my wife, and the list goes on. Many other jobs you have to work from 9-5 M-F but we get to crack our lap top open at all times and in all places. And the nice part is that you dont really have to track all of that too closely, cuz you can just eat your hours and are not getting paid extra. I love that flexibility
EY really shouldn’t have dropped the degree requirements!
I'm in fsg assurance. I like my team, find the work interesting, and try to form strong and positive relationships with my coworkers and clients. When there's room to make something more efficient or send work overseas, whether it frees up my time or my teammates' time, I do it. I plan ahead, prioritize carefully, and set boundaries. I also have a flex schedule and don't work busy season hours :) so yup, I like my job! Like everyone at any job some days are tough, but overall it's great
I’m in SALT. I did enjoy the variety of projects I was on and flexibility. I actually accepted an offer recently because it is allowing be to get more diversified tax experience than what I’m getting now. In addition, I knew that I didn’t want to do just SALT the rest of my career.
I'm in Risk Advisory. I like that B4 gives you access to internal subject matter experts and resources, and I think that has made my work of greater value and helped me develop my own knowledge base.
I would prefer to have better pay for the hours I put in and (honestly) less of the progressive agitprop from HR
Do you enjoy Risk Advisory?
That you can even work at Big 4 that gives you the privilege to ultimately go elsewhere is--in and of itself--an opportunity. I'm black and female--when I graduated from college with a degree in accounting, despite my good grades and extracurricular activities I was passed over for lesser qualified people that are not black. Look around you, OP. How many black colleagues do you see? If, on the rare chance that you see a black colleague, how many of them is a female. So, yeah.
I have no idea what is the chicken and what's the egg in this situation and what came first. But forcing diversity is counter productive. Big 4 should change their approach to the applicant selection, instead of looking at simply GPA. I was one of the working stidents (almost full time) and lived far away from college so there is no way I could maintain 3.5 GPA, I still kept it above 3. But I was am independently living adult at that point, competing for a job with someone who's job was studying. Im white, but I think similar issue face students of color and minorities. So in this way they are disadvantaged but just lowering GPA just because - that's dumb
I worked in tax with the intent (from day one) to transfer to a specialty group. I liked my work in compliance but just had too many clients and worked too much. I liked the complexity, the diversity in projects, the constant learning, the ability to start managing things so early in my career, and mentoring/teaching others. It was definitely a good base for what I do now.
I think it boils down to:
- Stability
- Networking
- Resume building
- Quick promotions
- Big raises by % (granted base is smaller)
I was sold on big 4 in college with the graph showing salary in industry compared to big 4. Industry started higher but had smaller raises while big 4 started lower but increased at a much faster rate quickly outpacing industry.
You do B4 audit because in your analysis it is the best long-term path you have available at the moment. Loving your job has nothing to do with anything - you work for money not for lols.
I have one, but playing Wasteland 2 is hardly going to pay the bills.